5 - Languages with the least number of speakers. By the end of this century, it is estimated that half of all languages will be extinct.

3% of world’s population speak 96% of the current languages, and amongst those, 2,000 have less than a thousand native speakers. Most of the languages expected to die out by the end of this century are from the vast deserts of Africa and Australia, and the rainforests of South American and Southeast Asia.